What is it about fear that allows it to invade our lives? Using it's inky black tendrils to creep up on us, wrap itself around us and choke us till we can not even scream for help? Well I am tired of letting fear take over me. I allow it to prevent me from doing so many things that I want to do and it needs to stop. Now!Over the last few months I have been working towards making healthier decisions. Decisions that impact not only me, but my family as well. However, the path I am venturing down, is not a short one. It feels as though it is fraught with danger! That it is safer to continue making unhealthy choices...poor financial choices, bad eating habits, smoking, lack of physical movement.
Some might think that I am overreacting. However, have you ever thought about why so many people continue to make such bad choices? Addiction is the answer for some. For others, like me, the healthier choice is so scary, that it is hard to even contemplate doing the right thing.
Here, I am hoping I can work on my fears by writing about them. Publicizing them as a way to release them and thereby making myself, and my resolve, stronger to fight and win!
I was looking for an image to post within, and came across this article from Addiction.com I found it pretty spot on with how I have been feeling. Fear article at Addiction.com One of the reader comments at the bottom of the article, is spot on though, when they say that "Fear is only a false expectation appearing real." Isn't it funny how we fool ourselves to believe that the simplest path is the one we should always take.
I have never known life to be about easy for anyone. We all have challanges that we face one way or another - regardless how it looks to those on the outside. It is how we choose to forage on that determines really what type of mettle we are made of.
